Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way.

The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money.

When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Indeed, it is an indisputable fact that all the complex and horrendous questions confronting us at home and worldwide have their answer in that single book [the Bible].

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.